Lol, yup it is comments like these!

Let's point out all the most minor inconveniences and how they fuck "tax payers" over. I'm soooo sorry you have people sleeping in cars near you :/ omg, someone had to dig through your dirty trash to look for 20 cents worth of cans, you are so hurt.

The real truth is you don't understand why Portland is the way it is compared to other major cities and why people are homeless in the first place. Homelessness isn't a Portland problem, it's a national problem; it's caused by many many things such as income inequality, lack of socialist programs to help out the disadvantaged, sex trafficking, an under-funded education system, a broken healthcare system etc.

The reason why Portland has so many homeless people is because other major cities sweep out their homeless/provide very few resources. Working in a shelter, a majority of people I meet are coming from out of state. So Portland's homelessness could be fixed the easy way (by eliminating resources, telling them to fuck off to California, go be poor and homeless somewhere else), or by fixing national issues. Voting for socialist programs, advocating for a wealth tax, fixing our healthcare system, our justice system, better mental health treatment.

Or we could just tell them all to leave and go somewhere else. I get the minor inconveniences but personally I am happy I live in a city that isn't pushing people away. I'd prefer to face the cruelty of our world rather than be blinded by clean streets and unopened trash cans